The Future Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIJKFELMNOP QFCRSTUV WCXYZRA2 B2C2D2E2RF2G2 H2FI2C2J2K2L2XM2 CMWN2FO2P2N KCQ2R2OFS2KRET2 U2V2 CW2X2FY2WZ2 A3B3C3D3RM2XE3FN

A wanderer is man from his birthA
He was born in a shipB
On the breast of the river of TimeC
Brimming with wonder and joyD
He spreads out his arms to the lightE
Rivets his gaze on the banks of the streamF
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As what he sees is so have his thoughts beenG
Whether he wakesH
Where the snowy mountainous passI
Echoing the screams of the eaglesJ
Hems in its gorges the bedK
Of the new born clear flowing streamF
Whether he first sees lightE
Where the river in gleaming ringsL
Sluggishly winds through the plainM
Whether in sound of the swallowing seaN
As is the world on the banksO
So is the mind of the manP
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Vainly does each as he glidesQ
Fable and dreamF
Of the lands which the river of TimeC
Had left ere he woke on its breastR
Or shall reach when his eyes have been closedS
Only the tract where he sailsT
He wots of only the thoughtsU
Raised by the objects he passes are hisV
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Who can see the green earth any moreW
As she was by the sources of TimeC
Who imagines her fields as they layX
In the sunshine unworn by the ploughY
Who thinks as they thoughtZ
The tribes who then roamed on her breastR
Her vigorous primitive sonsA2
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What girlB2
Now reads in her bosom as clearC2
As Rebekah read when she sateD2
At eve by the palm shaded wellE2
Who guards in her breastR
As deep as pellucid a springF2
Of feeling as tranquil as sureG2
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What bardH2
At the height of his vision can deemF
Of God of the world of the soulI2
With a plainness as nearC2
As flashing as Moses feltJ2
When he lay in the night by his flockK2
On the starlit Arabian wasteL2
Can rise and obeyX
The beck of the Spirit like himM2
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This tract which the river of TimeC
Now flows through with us is the plainM
Gone is the calm of its earlier shoreW
Bordered by cities and hoarseN2
With a thousand cries is its streamF
And we on its breast our mindsO2
Are confused as the cries which we hearP2
Changing and shot as the sights which we seeN
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And we say that repose has fledK
For ever the course of the river of TimeC
That cities will crowd to its edgeQ2
In a blacker incessanter lineR2
That the din will be more on its banksO
Denser the trade on its streamF
Flatter the plain where it flowsS2
Fiercer the sun overheadK
That never will those on its breastR
See an ennobling sightE
Drink of the feeling of quiet againT2
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But what was before us we know notU2
And we know not what shall succeedV2
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Haply the river of TimeC
As it grows as the towns on its margeW2
Fling their wavering lightsX2
On a wider statlier streamF
May acquire if not the calmY2
Of its early mountainous shoreW
Yet a solemn peace of its ownZ2
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And the width of the waters the hushA3
Of the grey expanse where he floatsB3
Freshening its current and spotted with foamC3
As it draws to the Ocean amy strikeD3
Peace to the soul of the man on its breastR
As the pale waste widens around himM2
As the banks fade dimmer awayX
As the stars come out and the night windE3
Brings up the streamF
Murmurs and scents of the infinite seaN

Matthew Arnold



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